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The Expanded Child Tax Credit Is Not a Cost Effective Way to Reduce Poverty
The expanded child tax credit is the gift that keeps on giving, injecting roughly 19 point three billion dollars into local economies. The idea behind this change was to funnel money to families in the midst of a pandemic during which millions of workers lost their jobs. One point five million parents would leave the work foruse, and as a result, child poverty would be reduced at most by 22 per cent. To day nicka dalson said even though he is receiving the checks, he wants them to stop. Families like mine will quickly come to demand taxpayer funded checks. It doesn't matter who you are,. You start out not needing the cash, only to find out that you do need it